According to recent statistics compiled by the National Youth Violence Prevention Center (an organization sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and various other federal agencies), it is extremely likely that your teen or a teen known to you or your own teen will experience dating violence. Dating violence covers the gamut of physical, sexual and/or emotional/psychological abuse and occurs in the context of casual or long-term relationships. Certainly rates of frequency and severity vary depending on what questions are posed in a particular survey, but conservative survey results